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P. DeBenedictis
1964
Journal-25
5 June Made River Coal Mine, 157°25'N, 70°24'W. A lochan
stabilized at 880 x 400 meters (30.5 acres), but which
was to go to 700 x 400 meters. I feel like it. There are only
3-4 f. Longspurs, a 8 peckard, a f. Pturnigian, and
2" pairs of Semipodis, a pair of dundus are partly
on the plot. Came in about 6 to see what was here.
A Myrtle warbler was feeding along the edge of the cliff
and the usual shrebirds in the areas where they have
been in the past. 4 Long-tail Janggers were bombing the
local Parachutes and 2 longtail wees were cleaning
to neat off a Pturnigian bird that has been here
several days. Not a lot of shrebird noise. A white-
crowned Sparrow, Redpoll, and a 5 slate-colored Tinea
in camp, and several jaages coming over going
east from 8 to 9 A.M., including 4 Povarines.
Arctician Sandpiper in the village was not singing,
and one group of ? King Eiders went over about
9, as well as another lone. At noon gulls congregating
on the river, and pintail around the camp area in
pools. Wagtails all over this place. Activity was
very low 11 to 3, then mostly song and cheese,
for the next 2½ hrs. Feeding became obvious only
by 5 A.M., when it had become quite bright and
the fog was gone. Evident much influx of jaages
phalacrope and pectorals during this day, but
they are far from common. Thought I saw a
second species of warbler in camp but never got a good